Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Hey, folks. Can't talk long tonight, because I've got an exam tomorrow and I can't stay up late. I'm not really worried about the exam, per se. I've studied and I know the material fairly well...I just don't test well at all. I'm really nervous that I'm going to walk in and completely forget everything I've learned. Not to mention the fact that it's a psychology exam, and those can either be REALLY easy, or REALLY hard. Please pray for me, if you get a chance. However, I'm also thrilled that my new piano is getting tuned tomorrow, HOORAY! I can't wait to hear how it sounds once all those sour notes are fixed. Today was a good day, though. I slept until ten (guilty), got dressed, and did some chores. Then I went to Target, picked up "Order of the Phoenix" and came home. Bobby came over shortly afterwards, and Evan, Shelby and I played Frisbee with him in the front yard for a while...it's eighty frigging degrees here, so the weather was undeniably beautiful. The Frisbee did get run over at one point but miraculously, wasn't broken! Weird....Evan and Bobby also demonstrated their skill at rolling when I told them how I'd been taught at self-defense class. They tried to make me do it, but thankfully, I eluded them. Soon after this, Bobby took Shelby to the bank, and they came home with ice cream for everyone. Yum! Shelby and I watched Harry Potter while Mom had her yearbook Christmas party (although we were interrupted several times by Mom, Bobby, and Drew. Conspiracy, perhaps? Who knows.). After that, I found out that my exam is tomorrow, not Thursday as I'd thought, so I had to do some power studying. Thankfully, the exam is going to be on Social Psychology, which I'd already spent a whole semester on in my, gasp! Social Psychology class! Anyway, soon after I finished studying, we found out that Drew was going to stay here at the house for the next couple of days so that he can avoid the Italian mafia, so Evan and I cleaned out the guest room and I cleaned his bathroom, because Evan OBVIOUSLY has NO idea how to clean a bathroom properly. Now I'm here. Fun, productive, and FAST! Good day. How was yours?

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Pseudo-Firebird

Out of the Ashes

In childhood, I was the butterflyBrightly colored, joyous, energeticI flitted from here to there, helter-skelterContent to be on the move, happy to be loved.Hues were vibrant, sounds beyond all description.The little bird, chirping merrily,Never caring whether I was on key or not.I was the butterfly.

Later, a blow came.The butterfly lost its wings. The joy left the world.The light went out, almost, but never quite.It kept going.I became the firefly then, a creature of the evening.The light was faint, sometimes going out,But always returning, never dying.Hope was faint, but it never left.

And today? What am I today?Today I became the phoenix.The layers of pain became a prison that could not hold me.The flames renewed, restored the joy.The journey has been long, but today the flight,The sky is worth it all.Bitterness, pain, resentment, I suddenly realizeHave led me to today.

Today, I became the phoenix.

--Katie Johnson

About Me

I am a music and book-loving Christian girl. So, basically just like eighty percent of the rest of the population. I majored in English and minored in psychology. I am also working on the world's first cliche free novel and going through withdrawal from sour gummy worms. I love to sing, take naps, have dinner with my friends and mock anything possible, particularly parades.

Phoenix Poems, Quotes, and Facts

"The phoenix, hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise."--Miquel de Cervates Saavedra

So often, we believe that we have come to a place that is void of hope and void of possibilities, only to find that it is the very hopelessness that allows us to hit bottom, give up our illusion of control, turn it over, and ask for help. Out of the ashesof our hopelessnesscomes the fire of our hope.--Anne Wilson Shaef

"The Phoenix became popular in early Christian art, literature and Christian symbolism, as a symbol of Christ, and further, represented the resurrection, immortality, and the life-after-death of Jesus Christ."

Like the mighty phoenix, Once again I rise from the flames set to destroy me & take flight. I am Stronger Glorious Powerful Victorious.--Kirsti A. Dyer, MD, MS

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes."--Anne Baxter

"In Japan, as earlier in China, the mythical Phoenix was adopted as a symbol of the imperial household, particularily the empress. This mythical bird represents fire, the sun, justice, obedience, and fidelity."